Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Instagram’s Threads feels like Twitter’s early days while offering an insta-network on infrastructure that should avoid bugs and outages plaguing smaller rivals  —  Launch of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as a rival to Elon Musk’s platform sparks excited online chatter  —  It feels like 2006 all over again. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max Tani / Semafor: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets” and other IP  —  Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition and will decide by November 15, 2023, whether to clear the deal  —  Amazon’s (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) may reduce competition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily M. Bender: Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about rogue AI and those illuminating harms is ahistorical and obscures research, journalism, and activism  —  In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: How Tom Brady’s crypto ambitions, like being an FTX “ambassador”, collided with reality, part of the humiliating reckoning facing crypto embracing celebrities  —  The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash.  Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped. Lees verder op Tech Meme